Usually, it's because the sperm gets into the fallopian tube before the egg is released. Once there, the sperm wait for an egg to arrive. After fertilization, it can take 5-10 days for the fertilized egg to begin to attach itself to the lining of the uterus. Pregnancy begins when this happens.
The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name; the term Thagomizer was coined in 1982 by cartoonist Gary Larson in his comic The Far Side, and thereafter became gradually adopted as an informal term within scientific circles, research, and education.
Anthony Burgess did much the same with A Clockwork Orange, as did George Orwell in 1984. The precedent goes back at least to Shakespeare himself, who coined more than a hundred new words and phrases in his plays, including There's the rub, lackluster, and silliness.. With that in mind, we decided to list some of our favorite slang words and phrases from the world of literature. FEWMETS.